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...couldn't stand it any longer. He slipped out the door, and in a moment returned with his snare drum and cymbals. He got to work immediately, grinning from ear to ear. He is famed for wearing out a drum-skin once a week, and wearing out a pair of sticks every performance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Fats' Waller, Lightfooted Leviathan of Swingin', Gives Unsolicited Jam Session | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

...Navy mine sweeper which was supposed to have refueled the aviators at Howland Island. Captain William Fridell soon tired of this menial task, however, and put for the phoenix Islands, nearly 300 miles south of the equator. The captain figured that winds and current would have driven the lost pair south...

Author: By Cleveland Amory, | Title: Heat Lightning, Venus, but No Planes, Seen In ROTC Search | 9/30/1937 | See Source »

Tommy Dorsey and Edythe Wright, songstress of his orchestra, will appear in person in Cambridge this afternoon. Briggs & Briggs, 1272 Massachusetts Avenue, report that the pair are visiting their store between 2:20 and 2:35 o'clock to autograph any records brought or bought...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dorsey Here Today | 9/28/1937 | See Source »

...Georgetown, D. C., home of James Roosevelt, first son of the President, was looted in his absence. Stolen were a valuable pair of cuff links and a watch given him by his grandfather. Scattered about the upset rooms were whiskey, wine, and liqueur bottles, emptied by the thieves during their activities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 20, 1937 | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

...Maurice to leave, Mabel made rapid progress in being "broken down and made over" by Tony, could soon sum up her past activities in ''a decadent unhappy world" thus: "I had been something like an octopus with many arms, a psychic belly, and a highly developed pair of eyes." She learned "to live in the moment," learned self-sufficiency (except when Tony was out of her sight). Particularly she learned something that made it easy to write her candid memoirs, namely, the Indian belief that "the power goes out of truth as soon as it is told, spoken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Vol. IV, Marriage IV | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

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